When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or you take them with gratitude.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
— Rosa Parks
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
You either lead by example or you don't lead at all. You have to go first as a leader. That's what it takes to get others to follow your lead.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
It's fine to celebrate success but it's more important to heed the lessons of failure
— Bill Gates
Great leaders never stop clarifying expectations, and they never stop mentoring.
— Eric Chester
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct.
— Dee Hock
Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain
— Max De Pree
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
— Peter Drucker
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
— Mahatma Gandhi
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.
— Natalie Goldberg
Leadership is only a means, to what end is the real question.
— Peter Drucker
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
— Roy Disney
Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else.
— Michael Jordan
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can--there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
— Sarah Caldwell
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
— Ginny Rometty
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
— Oprah Winfrey
I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas Alva Edison
The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity.
— Margaret Wheatley
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
— Nelson Mandela
The person seeking to learn wins what the person seeking to impress loses.
— Angela Jiang
You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude.
— Simon Sinek
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
— Zig Ziglar
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
— Benjamin Mays
If you do what’s right for the individual, you’ll have done what’s right for the company. A well-seasoned VP told me that many years ago when we were considering making some "non-traditional" organizational changes. I’ve always remembered it.
— Ramona Bilgram
Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing.
— James Kouzes
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
— Mary Kay Ash
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